Hanging Out at Home

This week, we've been trapped in our apartment. They've been redoing our deck -- cleaning it, putting on a tar, waterproof coat, recementing it, painting it, etc. Every day, Monday through Friday, they put on a new layer. AND since there is only one door in and out of our apartment (which enters onto the deck), we're trapped inside. So, besides staring out the window and watching paint dry, we've been trying to make our own fun at home!

December, above, and Isaac playing on our bed. Here Isaac is wearing his Canada shirt and looking mighty cute in it!

December giving Isaac a kiss

December reading Isaac a book about fairies (he loved hearing about all of those pink fairies, I'm sure). She's got the book memorized and is saying it to him. This book is from the public library, and it made me laugh when we went there because out of the entire floor that they have dedicated to children's books, December picked out the two most pink, girly books they had. She chose this one, about fairies, and another one, about babies dressed up in pink angel costumes.

Isaac being a true Californian with his flower shirt. He's finding his thumb more and more often, and he likes it -- although he's still not completely sure what to do with it and it still gags him every now and then.


December thoroughly enjoyed a piece of her leftover chocolate birthday cake...

Again, one of the rare times December wanted to hold Isaac. She still takes his rejection very personally and completely melts down if he starts to cry while she's holding him.

A happy boy

It's the Jones' children bath time! Lately I've been giving them both baths at the same time, and it seems to work really well!

Brad is the only one at church right now...December has been throwing up yesterday and today, and I'm not sure what she's got. While I feel awful for December when she throws up, I really appreciated the long nap she took yesterday! It was absolutely wonderful. Her naps are pretty irregular these days, if she takes one at all, so to have her take a nice, looong nap was awesome!

December's 3rd Birthday!

December is now 3 years old! We had her birthday party last Thursday, and it was princess themed. So she had Cinderella plates, the dessert plates were all of the Disney princesses, and there were tons of pink and purple balloons that had princess stickers all over them. December was super excited when we went to the party store and picked all of this out, as you might imagine!

The cake I made her was a princess castle -- a very PINK castle, as you can tell!

I looked up castle cakes online, and there was a how-to video for this one, which was quite helpful!

For dinner, we had December's favorite things: hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, and chips. For the hot dogs, we got every topping that we could think of -- chili, cheese, relish, mustard, onions, banana peppers, etc. There were 12 adults and 11 children at the party (some toddlers and some babies). Here you can see some of December's friends. December's in the front, and then from left to right are Noah, Samuel, and Andrew.

Do you remember the picture from earlier in the blog with the four pregnant girls standing in a line? Well, here's our four babies! Left to right (youngest to oldest): Abigail (only 9 days old in this picture), Benjamin (born Christmas Eve, I believe), Clara (born 3 days after Isaac), and Isaac.



Clara and Isaac holding hands (or, rather, holding fists...)

December playing with the My Little Ponies she got from Uncle Jeff, Auntie Erin, Caden, and Cayleigh for her birthday. She LOVES these ponies and plays with them constantly every day! She takes them from room to room (here she's in the bathroom with them) and plays for hours. She got a My Little Ponies dvd from Auntie Kelli at Christmas, and has learned the names of all of them...hm. Now I'm thinking I should have done a My Little Pony party! :o)

Here's December's new tricycle! She likes it alot, but she's still learning the pedalling motion...

Fixed!

I apologize about that video not working for you. I'm not sure how it got set as a private video, but Brad fixed it. So it works now! I'm sorry!

Nursery Rhyme

December has recently fallen in love with nursery rhymes and has memorized lots of them. Here's me attempting to catch some of them in a video -- with some silly December results...

Here's the nursery rhymes she's saying:

Mary Mary Quite Contrary

Mary Mary quite contrary

How does your garden grow?

With silver bells and cockle shells

And pretty maids all in a row.

Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie runs through town

Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown

Rapping at the window, crying through the lock:

"Are the children in bed? For now it's 8 o'clock."

Little Jack Horner

Little Jack Horner sat in a corner

Eating a Christmas pie

He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum

And said, "What a good boy am I!"

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where have you been?

I've been to London to look at the Queen.

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, what did you there?

I frightened a little mouse under her chair.